Andrew L. Grunzke

Education and the Female Superhero

Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring a variety of female superhero narratives, including Wonder Woman comics and television shows like The Secrets of Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this book argues that twentieth-century superheroine stories historically depicted education as the path to female liberation and empowerment.

Produktdetails

• Education and Popular Culture
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781498596862
• ISBN-10: 149859686X
• Artikelnr.: 67791935

Autorenporträt

By Andrew L. Grunzke

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Redemption, Collaboration, and Compassion: Education and the
Construction of the Female Superhero Identity
Chapter Two: How Sorority Girls Became Wonder Women: Higher Education,
Comic Books, and Female Empowerment during the Second World War
Chapter Three: from Holliday Girls to Angels: Second Wave Feminism Meets
Prime Time Television
Chapter Four: She Became a Dual Person: Children's Television Program The
Secrets of Isis and the Teacher as Alter-Ego of the Female Warrior of the
1970s
Chapter Five: The Cyborg and the Post-Human Schoolteacher: The Bionic Woman
and 1970's Prime Time Feminism
Chapter Six: High School Is Hell: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist
Education at the Turn of the Millennium